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Rice Urges Turkey Not To Attack Kurdish Rebels In Iraq

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged her Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul during talks in Washington not to take military action against Kurdish rebels in neighboring Iraq.

Rice (right) with Gul in Washington on February 6

Turkey accuse the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) of using northern Iraq to launch attacks into Turkey.

Ankara accuses Washington and Baghdad of not doing enough to stop the PKK in Iraq.

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